Lin-Manuel Miranda - Right Hand Man (First Draft) lyrics

[ENSEMBLE] Here comes the General! [BURR] Ladies and gentlemen [ENSEMBLE] Here comes the General! [BURR] The moment you've been waiting for [ENSEMBLE] Here comes the General! [BURR] He's fighting for his life [ENSEMBLE] Here comes the General! [BURR] George Washington! [WASHINGTON] We are outgunned Outmanned Outnumbered Outplanned Ayo, we gotta make an all-out stand Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man. [ENSEMBLE] What? What? Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! [WASHINGTON] Outgunned Outmanned Outnumbered Outplanned We gotta make an all-out stand Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man. [ENSEMBLE] What? What? Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! [WASHINGTON] Check it— Can I be real a second? For just a millisecond? Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second? Now I'm the model of a modern major general The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all Lining up, to put me up on a pedestal Writin' letters to relatives Embellishin' my elegance and eloquence But the elephant is in the room The truth is in ya face when ya hear the British cannons go Boom Any hope of success is fleeting How can I keep leading when the people I'm Leading keep retreating? We put a stop to the bleeding as the British take Brooklyn Knight takes rook, but look [WASHINGTON] We are outgunned Outmanned Outnumbered Outplanned We gotta make an all-out stand Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man. [ENSEMBLE] What? What? Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! [WASHINGTON (and ENSEMBLE)] Yo, Admiral Howe's got troops out on the water 32,000 troops in New York harbor We got 10,000 troops, that makes it harder When they surround our troops, they're gonna slaughter us and Boom goes the canon, watch the blood and the sh** spray and Boom goes the canon, we're abandoning Kips Bay and Boom, there's another ship and Boom, we just lost the southern tip and Boom, we gotta run to Harlem quick We can't afford another slip Guns and horses giddyup I decide to divvy up My forces, they're skittish as the British cut the city up This close to giving up, facing mad scrutiny I scream in the face of this ma** mutiny:

Are these the men with which I am to defend America? We ride at midnight, Manhattan in the distance I cannot be everywhere at once, people I'm in dire need of a**istance… [BURR] Your excellency, sir! [WASHINGTON] Who are you? [BURR] Aaron Burr, sir! Permission to state my case? [WASHINGTON] As you were [BURR] Sir, I was a captain under General Montgomery Until he caught a bullet in the neck in Quebec And well, in summary I think I'd be of tactical a**istance I don't mean to brag but my dad was the President of Princeton, so I have some questions, a couple of suggestions On how to fight instead of fleeing west [WASHINGTON] Next! [BURR] Wha— [HAMILTON] Your excellency, you wanted to see me? [WASHINGTON] Alexander Hamilton, come in. Aaron Burr was just leaving [BURR] Yes, well, I'm suited to the battlefield, I'd rather let that play out [WASHINGTON] Burr? [BURR] Sir? [WASHINGTON] Close the door on your way out [BURR, whispered] What a dick [HAMILTON] Have I done something wrong, sir? [WASHINGTON] On the contrary I called you here because our odds are beyond scary Your reputation precedes you, but I have to laugh [HAMILTON] Sir? [WASHINGTON] Hamilton, how come no one can get you on their staff? [HAMILTON] Sir! [WASHINGTON] Don't get me wrong, you're a young man of great renown We fought together in Trenton, you helped us take the town Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox both had their eye on you You turned them both down, I'm wonderin' if I can rely on you [HAMILTON] Sir [WASHINGTON] Didn't mean to spy on you, but I have seen you fight You've got a hunger, I was just like you when I was younger Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr? [HAMILTON] Yes [WASHINGTON] Dyin' is easy, young man, livin' is harder [HAMILTON] Why are you telling me this? [WASHINGTON] I'm being honest I'm working with a third of what our Congress has promised We are a powder keg about to explode I need someone like you to lighten the load [WASHINGTON] We are outgunned Outmanned Outnumbered Outplanned You know we have to make an all-out stand I'm askin' you to be my right-hand man. [ENSEMBLE] What? What? Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!